Shadows and Enlightenment
Title | Shadows and Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Baxandall |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300072723 |
Shadows are holes in light. We see them all the time, and sometimes we notice them, but their part in our visual experience of the world is mysterious. In this book, an art historian draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual perception, and art history to discuss shadows and the visual knowledge they can offer.
Shadows of the Enlightenment
Title | Shadows of the Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Blair Hoxby |
Publisher | Classical Memories/Modern Iden |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780814215005 |
A broad exploration of the collision and coexistence of classical and modernizing forces within tragic drama during the Enlightenment.
The Philosopher's Gaze
Title | The Philosopher's Gaze PDF eBook |
Author | David Michael Levin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 504 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0520922565 |
David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living. In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision—if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing—the prospects for a radically different lifeworld. The world, after all, inevitably reflects back to us the character, the reach and range, of our vision. In these provocative essays, the author draws on the language of hermeneutical phenomenology and at the same time refines phenomenology itself as a method of working with our experience and thinking critically about the culture in which we live. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merlea
The Shadow of Enlightenment
Title | The Shadow of Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Theresa Levitt |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2009-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199544700 |
This work examines the intersection of science and politics in the work of Francois Arago and Jean-Baptiste Biot, the principle architects of the optical revolution of early 19th-century France. Their disagreement over the optical accessibility of the world played out across a wide range of French culture.
In the Shadow of Catastrophe
Title | In the Shadow of Catastrophe PDF eBook |
Author | Anson Rabinbach |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2001-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520226909 |
"The quality of Rabinbach's intellectual history and his ability to write about highly complex texts in an accessible way are unassailable. His conviction that this German tradition of thought still exerts a strong intellectual and even political influence today makes In the Shadow of Catastrophe a direct and powerful intervention in current debates. This book is a gem!"—Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories
In the Shadow of the Enlightenment
Title | In the Shadow of the Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Leventhal |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Occultism |
ISBN | 9780814749654 |
The Enlightenment and Its Shadows
Title | The Enlightenment and Its Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hulme |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | 9780415042314 |